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Trials & Tribunes
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: "The death bed of the martyr President Abraham Lincoln", Credit: Currier & Ives, Library of Congress
Scholar Elizabeth Leonard talks with host Brian Balogh about the trials of the surviving suspects in Lincoln’s assassination, conducted in an atmos...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 10:38
  • Purchases: 2
The Plot Thickens
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Terry Alford, Edward Steers Jr., Wyatt Evans, and Sarah Jencks walk the Guys through the evolution of John Wilkes Booth’s plan not only to kill Lin...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 11:50
Losing the Peace
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Our guest David Blight reminds us that Americans are re-fighting the Civil War 150 years after it ended. Historians, he said, “buried the questions...

Bought by WRPI and KZYX


  • Added: Apr 11, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Why Does Baltimore Have So Many Confederate Monuments?
From: Stefanie Mavronis
Caption: Baltimore's Lee-Jackson Monument, Credit: Stefanie Mavronis
Baltimore City is home to four Civil War monuments. Three are Confederate. We look at the history of how they got there and explore how people inte...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2015
  • Length: 11:32
Telling American Stories (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Bro Adams says the humanities can help us solve problems brought on by advances in technology. And: The hustler who inspired the "Beats." Plus: Wha...

Bought by WCNY, KKRN, WTJU, and KPVL


  • Added: Jan 16, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 4
Telling American Stories (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Bro Adams says the humanities can help us solve problems brought on by advances in technology. And: The hustler who inspired the "Beats." Plus: Wha...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, KVSC, WLIW, and KENW


  • Added: Jan 16, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 5
Give War and Peace a Chance (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Next year marks the 150th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy’s great Russian tome, War and Peace. While the novel’s great length scares many readers away, ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
Give War and Peace a Chance (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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January 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. A new book offers Tolstoyan wisdom for troubled times...

Bought by WJCT, WCPN, KRDP, and WLIW


  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
Letters Online
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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A team of proofreaders in Virginia has just wrapped up the three-year job of digitizing the papers of the Founding Fathers. They say ending the pro...

Bought by KENW, WABE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 4
Reading the Founding Fathers' Mail (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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More than 30 people who spent the last three years immersed in thousands of letters written by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John and Abigai...

Bought by WJCT, WABE, and WLIW


  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
Right on Target, So Direct: Bob Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks" (2 hour and 1 hour NEWCAST FRIENDLY versions)
From: Paul Ingles
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A celebration and exploration of "Blood on the Tracks," the Bob Dylan album voted his best in a Rolling Stone magazine fan survey. Music writers, ...

Bought by Radio Catskill, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WYSO, NPR Illinois, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:52:55
  • Purchases: 9
Let's Make Up: Friendship out of Fallout
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: John Adams presented to King George III, in 1785, as first American ambassador to the English court. Wood engraving, 19th century., Credit: The Granger Collection, New York.
From BackStory's episode on reconciliation in American history. Brian Balogh speaks with Shigeko Sasamori, a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing, and...

Bought by KUAF Public Radio, KPIK-LP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 11, 2014
  • Length: 09:31
  • Purchases: 3
Can We Still Call It Wilderness?
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: The mountain pass, Sierra Nevada, Credit: Library of Congress
Writer Emma Marris and historian Paul Sutter join the Guys as they discuss the Wilderness Act of 1964, and how American ideas of wilderness and how...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 10:43
  • Purchases: 1
Evicted From the Wild
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: The mountain pass, Sierra Nevada, Credit: Library of Congress
Producer Jesse Dukes has the story of some five hundred families who were made to leave their homes in an area supposedly “pristine and free of hum...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 2
Veterans and Disabilities (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The army is scrambling to recover missing war records from Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the meantime, many veterans struggle to get their disabilit...

Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WXDU


  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 3
Civil War Selfies (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
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A Facebook selfie or Instagrammed lunch is a far cry from what used to be required to take a picture. With expensive, slow technology, most photos ...

Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 3
WorldCanvass: Cultural Memory and Commemoration (Part 2)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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An exploration of what we remember and why.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 25:59
MLK: Three Landmark Speeches
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Three key speeches of American civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Martin Luther King Junior are excerpted and commented on by two lea...

Bought by KALW, WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 33
Princess Grace on JFK
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"He turned to me suddenly and asked: 'Is that a Givenchy you’re wearing?' And I said, 'why how clever of you, Mr. President! However did you kno...

Bought by WABE, Troy Public Radio, WSLR, PRX Remix, and KZYX


  • Added: Nov 14, 2013
  • Length: 06:21
  • Purchases: 5
JFK's Turn Towards Peace (Peace Talks Radio) [29:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
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A conversation with James Douglass, author of "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters". Douglass makes the case for his theory tha...

Bought by WFHB, KVSC, KMXT, and KVSC


  • Added: Oct 24, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 4
Prisoners of War, The Battle of the Bulge
From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont
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This hour features four Vermont soldiers captured at the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. The program weaves together their stories of capture,...

Bought by WXDU and KREV-LP


  • Added: Oct 23, 2013
  • Length: 56:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Other 9/11: Part One
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Before 2001, there was another 9/11. In 1973, a military coup backed by the United States, overthrew the Chilean government and ushered in sevente...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 11: Phoenix 20 Part 2
From: WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
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Part 2 of Phoenix 20 picks up right where part 1 ended. In this program, executive producer Sister Sue Sanders interviews host Dr. Peter Hilton abo...

Bought by WFHB and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 30:21
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 11: Phoenix 20 Part 1
From: WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
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The roles are reversed as Sister Susan Sanders interviews Veteran Matters host Dr. Peter Hilton about his time in the military during the Vietnam W...

Bought by WFHB and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 27:35
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 10: The Journey Home
From: WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
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Host Peter Hilton airs the final episode of this series of Veteran Matters. In this episode, Hilton welcomes back every veteran who has appeared on...

Bought by WFHB and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 24:43
  • Purchases: 2